the sky.” 
BIRDS AND POETS 15 
This is the one quoted by Emerson in 
**Parnassus.” Here is the concluding stanza: — 
“Leave to the nightingale her shady wood 3 
A privacy of glorious light is thine, 
Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood 
Of harmony, with instinct more divine ; 
Type of the wise, who soar, but never roam, 
True to the kindred points of heaven and home’? 
The other poem I give entire: — 
“Up with me! up with me into the clouds ! 
For thy song, Lark, is strong ; 
Up with me, up with me into the clouds! 
Singing, singing, 
With clouds and sky about thee ringing, 
Lift me, guide me till I find 
That spot which seems so to thy mind ! 
“T have walked through wildernesses dreary, 
And to-day my heart is weary; 
Had I now the wings of a Faery 
Up to thee would I fly. 
There is madness about thee, and joy divine 
In that song of thine ; 
Lift me, guide me high and high 
To thy banqueting-place in the sky. 
“ Joyous as morning 
Thou art laughing and scorning ; 
Thou hast a nest for thy love and thy rest, 
And, though little troubled with sloth, 
Drunken Lark ! thou wouldst be loth 
To be such a traveler as I. 
Happy, happy Liver ! 
With a soul as strong as a mountain river, 
Pouring out praise to the Almighty Giver, 
Joy and jollity be with us both ! 
“ Alas ! my journey, rugged and uneven, 
Through prickly moors or dusty ways must winds 
But hearing thee, or others of thy kind, 
